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Sallis, James Chester Himes: A Life
Walker & Co 2002 0802776396 / 9780802776396 Trade Paperback Fine
UNREAD copy. Purchased new at University Bookstore - unused. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine - Bright pages. 368 pages. Illustrated with photos. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. - Chester Himes's novels and memoirs represent one of the most important bodies of work by any American writer, but he is best known for The Harlem Cycle, the crime stories featuring Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones. His writing made him a major figure in Europe, but it is only recently that his talents have been acknowledged in the country that spurned him for most of his life, though his work is recognized as being on a par with that of Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Jim Thompson. In this major literary biography, acclaimed poet, critic, and novelist James Sallis explores Himes's life as no writer has attempted before. Combining the public facts with fresh interviews with the people who knew him best, including his second wife, Lesley, Sallis casts light onto the contradictions, self-interrogations, and misdirections that make Himes such an enigmatic and elusive subject. Chester Himes: A Life is a definitive study not only of the life of a major African-American man of letters, but of his writing and its relationship to the man himself, drawing a remarkable, deeply affecting portrait of a too often misunderstood and neglected writer. This is a work of high scholarship and of penetrating and passionate insight, a rare conjoining of two fine writers-and as much a work of literature as any of their novels. Synopsis Drawing on interviews with his wife and others who knew him, poet and novelist Sallis weaves together the facts of the American writer Himes' (1909-84) life with analysis of his fiction to find the relationship between the two. Himes began writing in prison in the early 1930s, and is now known as one of the 20th century's best writers of crime fiction, especially in Germany and his adopted France.
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